Reach your full potential with Communication Skills, Executive Leadership, and Career Growth for Physicians by Neil Baum, MD. This is your roadmap to mastering public speaking, managing your career, addressing legal issues, and exploring new opportunities in healthcare.While today's medical graduates receive exceptional training, they often lack the necessary guidance to excel in their careers and manage practices. This book bridges that gap, offering invaluable insights a...

Medicine is a Practice: The Rules for Healthcare Marketing is specifically designed as a valuable resource for physicians, healthcare professionals, office managers, and independent practice professionals. This comprehensive book by practice management and patient-centered care expert Neil Baum, MD, provides detailed discussions, guiding readers towards financially successful management practices.Baum, a practicing physician based in New Orleans, Louisiana, draws from real...

Building on the foundation of the previous editions, this book takes readers to the next level of management of medical practices for the 21st century. The road to becoming a physician is not an easy one to travel, nor does it become easier once a doctor completes his\her training. After a long and arduous training process, doctors embark on their professional journey, and there are major crossroads that are fraught with challenges, unknowns and risk. The transition to professional practic...

Building on the foundation of the previous edition, this book takes readers to the next level of management of medical practices for the 21st century. The road to becoming a physician is not an easy one to travel, nor does it become easier once a doctor completes his\her training. After a long and arduous training process, doctors embark on their professional journey, and there are major crossroads that are fraught with challenges, unknowns and risk. The transition to professional practice...

Today's medical graduates are superbly trained to practice state-of-the art clinical medicine. However, only in rare instances are they trained to self-manage their careers and medical practices. This book fills that gap in training and knowledge. To assist students, interns, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians manage the many challenges of their career, the authors have divided physicians careers into three stages: Early-Career, Mid-Career, and Late-Career.The goal of th...

An illuminating guide for those newly diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as their partners and caregivers—one filled with extensive details about diagnosis, treatments, and tips for thriving.The second leading cause of cancer death for men, prostate cancer affects more than a quarter of a million individuals in the United States each year. Most men with prostate cancer will go through the journey from diagnosis through treatment and beyond with a partner and fa...

Discover an insightful examination of the property investment appraisal process from leaders in the industryThis book explains the process of property investment appraisal: the process of estimating both the most likely selling price (market value) and the worth of property investments to individuals or groups of investors (investment value).Valuations are important. They are used as a surrogate for transactions in the measurement of investment performance ...

This book is intended to be a roadmap towards a successful practice for medical students, residents, fellows, and doctors. This roadmap focuses on how to build and manage a medical practice, and can be applied regardless if the reader is employed, joins a small group, or if they are a doctor who decides to start their own practice. Part I covers the basic business concepts that every physician needs to know. Chapters emphasize the benefits that accrue to a physician who understands the bas...

This text provides physicians with the basic business skills in order for them to become involved in the financial aspect of their practices. The text will help the physician decide what kind of practice they would like to join (i.e. private practice, small group practice, solo practice, hospital employment, large group practice, academic medicine, or institutional\government practice) as well as understand the basics of contracting, restrictive covenants and how to navigate the road to pa...

This volume presents chapters by leading figures researching the various pathways by which stress may interfere with health maintenance and contribute to disease etiology and progression. Their work focuses on direct effects of stress on the immune and endocrine systems, on behavioral factors in diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and with the general role of stress in illness processes.